The RoanokeSlant

This file is a personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com .......The Google Cookie Notice is required by the EU! So much for US Sovereignty!

Monday, November 30, 2015

Putin: You Want A No-Fly Zone? I’ll Give You A No-Fly Zone!

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There has been a steady
chatter about a no-fly zone over Syria.The concept is to limit Assad and Putin from
attacking pro-Western fighters who oppose both Assad and ISIS.

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There now is a No-Fly Zone
over Syria – only it’s Putin’s No-Fly Zone and it’s the NATO planes that dare
not fly for fear of Putin’s newly install S-400 anti-aircraft missile batteries
installed in the Russian occupied portion of Syria.

These missiles can attack
multiple targets up to a 200 mile range.

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Obama pulled US Patriot
anti-missile anti-aircraft batteries out of Turkey just before the Russians
moved in.Certainly sends a clear
message of our resolve to support our NATO “FRIENDS” doesn’t it!Then again, it’s totally consistent with
Obama’s lack of support for our friends the Ukrainians.

The deployment of the highly advanced Russian S-400
anti-air missiles at the Khmeimin base, Russia’s military enclave in Syria near
Latakia, combined with Russia electronic jamming and other electronic warfare
equipment, has effectively transformed most of Syria into a no-fly
zone under Russian control.

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Moscow deployed the missiles last Wednesday, Nov. 25, the
day after Turkish warplanes downed a Russian Su-24. Since then, the US and Turkey
have suspended their air strikes over Syria, including bombardments of
Islamic State targets. The attacks on ISIS in Iraq continue without interruption.
Turkey
is now extra-careful to avoid flights anywhere near the Syrian border.

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Both the US and Turkey are obviously wary of risking their planes being shot
down by the S-400, so long as Russian-Turkish tensions run high over the Su-24
incident.

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Friday, a US-led coalition spokesperson denied that
the absence of anti-IS coalition air strikes had anything to do with the S-400
deployment in Syria.
He said “The fluctuation or absence of strikes in Syria reflects the ebb and flow of
battle.”

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However, DEBKAfile’s
military sources confirm that neither the US, Turkey or Israel have any real
experience in contending with the Russian S-400, which uses multiple missile
variants to shoot down stealth aircraft, UAVs, cruise missiles and
sub-strategic ballistic missiles. Its operational range for aerodynamic targets
is about 250 km and for ballistic targets 60 km. The S-400 can engage up to 36
targets simultaneously.

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Thei range covers at least three-quarters of
Syrian territory, a huge part of Turkey,
all of Lebanon, Cyprus and half of Israel.

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Since the downing of their warplane, the Russians have put in place
additionally new electronic warfare multifunctional systems both airborne and
on the ground to disrupt Turkish flights and forces, Lt. Gen. Evgeny Buzhinksy
revealed Friday. Turkey has
countered by installing the KORAL electronic jamming system along its southern
border with Syria.

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An electronic battlefield has spread over northern Syria
and southern Turkey,
with the Russian and Turks endeavoring to jam each other’s radar and disrupt
their missiles. In this, the Russians have the advantage.

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With the Americans, Russians and Turks locked in a contest over Syria, and the
Israeli Air Force’s freedom of action restricted by objective conditions, some
comments made at week’s end by Israeli military and security officials sounded
beside the point.

Who Are The Real Syrian Refugees?

The media is awash with
well-meaning stories of the women and children Syrian Refugees and their plight
and flight.

As one watches the TV
coverage of the massive flow of humanity, one starts to wonder about the claim
that they are mostly women and children.

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On the contrary, one sees
mostly men who appear to be young, healthy and adequately dressed.This raises the key question: why are these
men not fighting to free their country from Assad and ISIS?

Did we not have a $500
million project to help them develop and expand the “freedom fighters” that
Obama said would be the “boots on the ground” that we would support with
training, equipment and air-support?

Roanoke Times, 11-29-2015,
Multiple big articles in multiple sections on multiple pages on why we all
need to get behind Obama’s Global Warming Jihad and give the rest of the world
hundreds of Billions of dollars (ultimately Trillions of dollars) in
reparations for destroying the world as we know it.We also must destroy our current energy
infrastructure systems and build wind turbines for the times when the wind
blows and solar panels for the times when the sun shines.

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All the countries of the
world are crying out with outstretched big hands for American Taxpayers Money
to “fix the damage Obama says we have done”

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There’s just a few small
problems with this scam:

The Climate is
Changing!The Climate has always been
Changing!

There is less than one
degree global warming in past 250 years.
The less than one degree warming cannot be shown by Real Science to be
man-caused.

For billions of years
there’s only been one driver of world temperature – Mother Nature!

The less than one degree
warming is a natural extension of the natural global warming that ended the
Little Ice Age, circa 1750 to 1800, a blink of Mother Nature’s eye ago.
There has been no significant global temperature change in last 18 years.
The taxpayer funded global warming models are belied by real measured data,
something about garbage in = garbage out.

The Gore-Mann Hockey Stick
has been totally falsified by measured data.
The non-US countries are burning more fossil fuels than the US.

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A beam of light amongst the Roanoke Times fog and smoke of
AGW is on Pg 3: by Bob Gibson: Virginia’s
coast is sinking!

Apparently, Mr. Gibson must
have read two blog items:

12-20-2015:Santa Gives AGW Global Warming Alarmists And
Roanoke Times Coal For Christmas--- a
realistic view of the “High-Water at Tide Water”:

11-12-2015:
Mother Natures Weather And Climate --- includes the latest NASA data that the
Antarctic Ice is growing and therefore is not having any significant impact on
rising sea levels that have been in process for over 16,000 years.

Perhaps Mr. Gibson also read Charles Battig's paper published in the American Thinker titled: Virginia is Sinkinghttp://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/06/virginia_is_sinking.html-Washington DC sinking fastGEOLOGY | New research confirms that the land under the Chesapeake Bay is sinking rapidly and projects that Washington, D.C., could drop by six or more inches in the next century—adding to the problems of sea-level rise.This falling land will exacerbate the flooding that the nation’s capital faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice sheets—accelerating the threat to the region’s monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations.For sixty years, tide gauges have shown that sea level in the Chesapeake is rising at twice the global average rate and faster than elsewhere on the East Coast. And geologists have hypothesized for several decades that land in this area, pushed up by the weight of a pre-historic ice sheet to the north, has been settling back down since the ice melted.http://www.uvm.edu/vq/?Page=news&storyID=21618&category=vq-green--

It’s very unsettling to realize that a pseudo-Kenyan,
pseudo-Muslim, Chicago Street
Organizer is telling the people of the world, in the face of massive contrarian
factual data, that “we” have destroyed the earth’s ecosystems and we’re going
to give “you” massive reparations for our “sins”! We are so sorry that we are responsible for Typhoons,
Hurricanes, sand storms, rising oceans, floods, starvation, pandemics and parched deserts and we hope
you will forgive us when you cash the big checks that we are bringing to Paris next week as an
initial down-payment!

We (both Obama and Kerry) have publically
acknowledged that the Radical Muslim Terrorist and Refugee disasters now
underway are directly caused by man-made global warming that Americans have
caused.

All we can do now is PAY and PRAY for forgiveness and
absolution.

Perhaps the Pope will help us if we present these
reparations as Indulgences.-

-It would be appropriate for the Pravda Media to revisit a Solzhenitsyn quote:

"Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me".

Friday, November 27, 2015

Who Was That Masked Man?

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Most “Lone Ranger” episodes
ended with someone asking “Who Was That Masked Man?”

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It’s interesting that most
states have laws making it illegal for anyone to wear a mask that conceals
their identity.

Anti-mask laws date back to
the mid-20th century when states and municipalities passed them as to inhibit
the Ku
Klux Klan, whose members typically wore hoods of white linen to conceal
their identities

Muslim
women can no longer wear the full-body garment in shops, restaurants or
public buildings and anyone caught flouting the ban could be struck with a
£6,500 fine.
The local government of Ticino approved the
referendum after the Swiss Parliament ruled that the ban did not violate the
country's federal law.

-A somber thought at this special time is that Obama and the Progressive and Liberal elements in our country are working diligently to reeducate our people that this country never was a Christian Nation founded on Christian values.

The number of Virginia
schools that have signed up for a federal program to feed children living in
poverty has jumped by 139 percent this school year, giving more than 56,000
kids access to free lunch and breakfast.

In all, 206 schools across
26 divisions statewide have decided to take advantage of the Community
Eligibility Provision, a program that uses federal money to provide free
breakfast and lunch to all students in qualifying school districts.

Turkey Shoots Down Putin Russian Fighter-Bomber

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Turkey’s shoot down of one of Putin’s combat aircraft was
far more about who the Russians were bombing rather than the incursion into Turkey’s
airspace.

The Russians were bombing
Turkey-friendly forces in Syria
that are fighting to depose Assad.Putin
has vowed to support Assad and is doing so with massive bombing runs.Those bombs also target anti-Assad forces
that are US-supported; however, we haven’t done anything to support our
friendly-forces!

Nicely consistent with our
non-support for our friends the Ukrainians!

Russia ramped up
the threat of a military confrontation between Turkey
and Moscow Wednesday – a day after a Russian
warplane was shot down by Turkey
– by announcing that a state-of-the-art air defense missile system will be
deployed at a Russian air base in Syria and that all its bombers will
now be escorted by fighter jets on their missions.